5.3% ▲ +87.2%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tumut · Urban Centre
Language in Tumut
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 87.9% of people in Tumut. While the share of people using other languages at home has risen to 5.3%, this remains far below the national figure of 22.3%. Most residents speak English fluently, with very few reporting they speak little or no English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.3% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than in most similar areas but far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This is a small increase since 2011, and very few people (0.4%) struggle with English, a rate well below the national average.
0.4% ▲ +140.8%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.4%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Tumut [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114033/tumut/topic/language